A Manual of Elementary Geology: or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological MonumentsLyell, Charles, Sir
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A Manual of Elementary Geology: or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as Illustrated by Geological Monuments
Lyell, Charles, Sir
Geology
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----, New edition (called the 3d) of the whole work in 4 vols.
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Elements, 1st edition in one vol. - - - - - - - - July 1838.
Principles, 6th edition, 3 vols. 12mo. - - - - - - June 1840.
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Principles, 7th edition in one vol. 8vo. - - - - - Feb. 1847.
----, 8th edition, now published in one vol. 8vo. - May 1850.
Manual of Elementary Geology (or "Elements," 3d edition), now
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_Works by Sir Charles Lyell._
I.
TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA,--1841-2. With Geological Observations on the
United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia. With large coloured geological
Map and Plates. 2 vols. post 8vo. 21_s._
II.
A SECOND VISIT TO THE UNITED STATES,--1845-6. _Second Edition._ 2 vols.
post 8vo. 18_s._
III.
PRINCIPLES OF GEOLOGY; or the Modern Changes of the Earth and its
Inhabitants considered, as illustrative of Geology. _Eighth Edition,
thoroughly revised._ With Maps, Plates, and Woodcuts. 8vo. 18_s._
IV.
A MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY; or the ANCIENT CHANGES of the Earth and
its Inhabitants, as illustrated by Geological Monuments. Fourth Edition.
_Thoroughly revised._ With 531 Woodcuts and Plates. 8vo. 12_s._
MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY.
CHAPTER I.
ON THE DIFFERENT CLASSES OF ROCKS.
Geology defined--Successive formation of the earth's
crust--Classification of rocks according to their origin and
age--Aqueous rocks--Their stratification and imbedded
fossils--Volcanic rocks, with and without cones and craters--Plutonic
rocks, and their relation to the volcanic--Metamorphic rocks and their
probable origin--The term primitive, why erroneously applied to the
crystalline formations--Leading division of the work.
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